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Epistle of Barnabas

Pseudo-Barnabas · c. 100 AD

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Apostolic

An early Christian treatise interpreting the Old Testament typologically and distinguishing Christianity from Judaism.

Table of Contents

1After the salutation, the writer declares that he would communicate to his brethren something of that which he had himself received2The Jewish sacrifices are now abolished3The fasts of the Jews are not true fasts, nor acceptable to God4Antichrist is at hand: let us therefore avoid Jewish errors5The new covenant, founded on the sufferings of Christ, tends to our salvation, but to the Jews’ destruction6The sufferings of Christ, and the new covenant, were announced by the prophets7Fasting, and the goat sent away, were types of Christ8The red heifer a type of Christ9The spiritual meaning of circumcision10Spiritual significance of the precepts of Moses respecting different kinds of food11Baptism and the cross prefigured in the Old Testament12The cross of Christ frequently announced in the Old Testament13Christians, and not Jews, the heirs of the covenant14The Lord hath given us the testament which Moses received and broke15The false and the true Sabbath16The spiritual temple of God17Conclusion of the first part of the epistle18Second part of the epistle. The two ways19The way of light20The way of darkness21Conclusion